Macau, Oct. 22 (Lusa) - Macau raised €8.66 billion in tax revenue on gaming and gambling between January and September 2018, up by 17% on the same period last year, according to official figures.
This revenue represents 97.5% of the amount expected to be collected by the end of the year.
In the same period of 2016 and 2017, the world's gambling capital had collected, €6.2 billion and €7.4 billion, respectively, according to the Macau Financial Services Bureau.
The €8.66 billion account for more than 80% of total taxes collected by the Macau authorities, which between January and September this year totalled €10.7 billion.
In the first nine months of the year, the Macau Administration spent €5.7 billion, up 7.2% over the same period of the previous year, with a positive balance of around €5 billion, up 28.3% % on the figure recorded between January and September 2017.